Welcome

This website is maintained by Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann, Canada Research Chair in International Human Rights at Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada. It is funded by the Canada Foundation for Innovation. Our purpose is to provide access to documents about political apologies and reparations. We also hope to provide access to press commentary, and establish an academic working papers series. For further information, please click the "About this Site" button in the top navigation bar.

Search this website by inserting information in any of the boxes below, and clicking "search" at the bottom of this page.

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Keywords

Keywords: In this field, you can enter a string of keywords to search for results. For example, if you are searching for an apology concerning slavery, then enter the keyword "slavery" into the keyword field. If you are searching for a specific entity who has either given or received an apology, then you may wish to use the Donor or Recipient fields instead.

Donor (From)

Donor (From): The Donor field lists all of the entities currently in the database that have offered apologies to another group. As you type the donor's name, the website will attempt to complete the name according to the information currently in the database. If the donor name that you are looking for does not appear in the field, then we have not yet archived any apologies by that entity. Sometimes, you may wish to exclude a donor from a search result. For example, if you are searching for apologies made to African Americans except for those made by the United States you would enter "United States" as your donor and check the "Exclude Donor from Results" checkbox.

Exclude Donor from Results (optional)

Recipient (To)

Recipient (To): The Recipient field lists all of the entities currently in the database that have received apologies from another entity. As you type the recipient's name, the website will attempt to complete the name according to the information currently in the database. If the recipient name that you are looking for does not appear in the field, then we have not yet archived any apologies to that entity. Sometimes, you may wish to exclude a recipient from a search result. For example, if you are searching for apologies made by the United States except for those apologies made to African Americans you would enter "African Americans" as your recipient and check the "Exclude Recipient from Results" checkbox.

Exclude Recipient from Results (optional)

The Political Apologies and Reparations website is currently
experiencing some technical difficulties. As a result, searches by
date may not work properly. Also, event and reparation dates may not
appear on your screen, and some characters may be garbled. We are
working to resolve these problems and apologize for any inconvenience.